Embassytown
“I was ahead of this curve, but it didn’t take long for the rest of the Embassytowners to understand that the Hosts were junkies, though they may not have known how or why. I suspect there was a power struggle in the Embassy, that some would have tried, out of habit, without rationale, to wall up information. They didn’t win.
The streets of Embassytown were something between carnival and apocalypse: moods of ending; hysteria; happiness, or its giddy approximation. Constables apprehended people walking determinedly toward the edge of town, in biorigging that might let them breathe the city air.
“You’re going nowhere!” the officers said. “Get that off. People are dying . . .” Some would-be city voyagers must have got through. Embassytowners wanting something from the Hosts. Pointless—the Ariekei wouldn’t perceive them as people, but as the meat belongings of Ambassadors.
I was able to bluff my way back into the Embassy. Seeing the way the Ambassadors were scurrying I felt for a moment al...most protective of them.MoreLess
The streets of Embassytown were something between carnival and apocalypse: moods of ending; hysteria; happiness, or its giddy approximation. Constables apprehended people walking determinedly toward the edge of town, in biorigging that might let them breathe the city air.
“You’re going nowhere!” the officers said. “Get that off. People are dying . . .” Some would-be city voyagers must have got through. Embassytowners wanting something from the Hosts. Pointless—the Ariekei wouldn’t perceive them as people, but as the meat belongings of Ambassadors.
I was able to bluff my way back into the Embassy. Seeing the way the Ambassadors were scurrying I felt for a moment al...most protective of them.MoreLess
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